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Post by housemouse on Dec 7, 2005 15:33:43 GMT -5
Yesterday I picked up The Truth - with Jokes by Al Franken.
Let me begin by saying Al Franken (along with Margaret Sanger, Jon Stewart, Alice Paul, and Gavin deBecker) is my hero. This book is fabulous. After each chapter, no after each paragraph, I am left with my mouth hanging open silently shaking my head wondering "why, why, why." It is a must read for all the knee jerk liberals I know are hiding on this board!
Also, after watching Jimmy Carter on The Daily Show the other night, I couldn't resist buying his new book. As soon as I am done with Al, Jimmy is up.
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Post by shmeep on Dec 7, 2005 15:59:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the recommendation. That's one I've been meaning to pick up but haven't yet.
I also caught Jimmy Carter on The Daily Show. What an amazing man! And still looking so healthy and with such a great sense of humor. Let me know how his book is. I'm curious about it.
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Post by doobrah on Dec 7, 2005 16:35:33 GMT -5
I just want to say how wonderful it is to have fellow knee-jerk liberals here! I am in a red state that just elected a Blue governor (YAY!!) and can't bash the Cowboy in Chief enough!!
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Post by minianne on Dec 7, 2005 16:38:39 GMT -5
Oh * I * do * sooooo * love * Al Franken! He was on one of my friends' radio talk shows a few years back and I had the chance to speak to him. You know, smart is awfully sexy... I love that I had the chance to banter back and forth with him for awhile... Someday I'll tell you all about the time I called into Rush Limbaugh's show and lambasted him for 1/2 hour...(they kept me on between breaks). My most memorable line? "Oh, you wonder who you are, don't you Mister Man? Now that you call Henry Kissinger "Hank" at cocktail parties and play golf with the President of the United States...". It even made his website... I gave him h-e-double hockey sticks... One of my finer moments... I'm quite beautiful when I'm mad!  |
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Post by housemouse on Dec 7, 2005 16:48:51 GMT -5
Oh * I * do * sooooo * love * Al Franken! He was on one of my friends' radio talk shows a few years back and I had the chance to speak to him. You know, smart is awfully sexy... I love that I had the chance to banter back and forth with him for awhile... Someday I'll tell you all about the time I called into Rush Limbaugh's show and lambasted him for 1/2 hour...(they kept me on between breaks). My most memorable line? "Oh, you wonder who you are, don't you Mister Man? Now that you call Henry Kissinger "Hank" at cocktail parties and play golf with the President of the United States...". It even made his website... I gave him h-e-double hockey sticks... One of my finer moments... I'm quite beautiful when I'm mad! Lesson for today: Do not get on Mini's bad side! |
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Post by mlm828 on Dec 7, 2005 17:05:32 GMT -5
Count me in! I live in a "red" area of a "blue" state and am shocked at the number of right-wingers here, who actually buy in to the *&@%! spouted by Limbaugh et al. -- not to mention the "Cowboy in Chief" (love that phrase, minianne!). At least one of the local radio stations carries Al Franken, so I know I'm not the only liberal in San Diego County -- even if it sometimes feels that way. It's a real pleasure to find some kindred spirits here.
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Post by housemouse on Dec 7, 2005 17:07:35 GMT -5
Count me in! I live in a "red" area of a "blue" state and am shocked at the number of right-wingers here, who actually buy in to the *&@%! spouted by Limbaugh et al. -- not to mention the "Cowboy in Chief" (love that phrase, minianne!). At least one of the local radio stations carries Al Franken, so I know I'm not the only liberal in San Diego County -- even if it sometimes feels that way. It's a real pleasure to find some kindred spirits here. I too live in a red area of the same blue state! Knowing the folks in my area, your area, and behind the Orange curtain, I am still looking for some blue staters here in sunny Southern California. I guess they are all up in the Bay Area. |
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Post by minianne on Dec 7, 2005 17:33:21 GMT -5
Ha! I loved when Laura Bush turned to George and referring to Bin Laden said: "You gonna git him, Bushie?"
I don't define myself as being "liberal", but my husband says that I am...
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Post by awlrite4now on Dec 7, 2005 18:22:22 GMT -5
Wow, it's so nice to know that I'm not the only one with dislike for The Shrub.
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Post by shmeep on Dec 7, 2005 19:14:43 GMT -5
I'm quite beautiful when I'm mad! Karma for this! Minianne, when you're on a roll, you kill me. |
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Post by shmeep on Dec 7, 2005 19:17:51 GMT -5
...behind the Orange curtain... That expression has always cracked me up. I'm curious...do any non-Californians know what that means? |
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Dec 7, 2005 20:44:26 GMT -5
As some of you may already know, I have wanted to plant the Shrub for a very long time. We lived mere blocks away in Dallas, in an area of the City called Preston Hollow when Shrub senior was in the White House. We had a very small Tom Thumb market in Preston Hollow and I liked to shop there because it was quiet and close to home.
One night I was standing on the pet aisle, minding my own business, reading the label on a can of cat treats. And I was basically shoved aside by this man; he said nothing, just slugged up his bag of dog food or cat litter, I'm not sure what, and went on his merry way. I yelled at him, "You are so RUDE! You could at least say, I'm sorry, or excuse me."
He turned and it was none other than George W. Bush -he had that Bush sneer on his face - and still he didn't say a word - and I knew right then and there that I found him dispicable !
Talk about your Tiny Texan! Goes to show you that not everything they grow in Texas is big - perhaps the empty space between the ears - somewhere along the way he really missed out on that big gray matter!
LongLashes
P.S. (In Canada we calls em like we sees em - I am a registered Liberal which here, south of the border, would make me BLUE - if I could vote!)
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Post by Eyphur on Dec 7, 2005 22:04:26 GMT -5
I just don't get the whole red state blue state thing. Which one am I in? Because it seems to me that in the summer Ohio is a Green (grass, trees, and cornfields) state.
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Post by awlrite4now on Dec 8, 2005 1:46:37 GMT -5
When I was a kid in Texas, there used to be a joke that Bush couldn't get elected dogcatcher. I'm talking about Dubya's daddy here. I remember that coming out of my father once when he took us kids to watch the county fair parade, and GHWB was riding in a convertible, waving at the crowd, trying to win a state house seat, I think.
As a freshman in high school, I wrote a little essay about running for student council. I said that I had run for and lost more elections than George Bush. My teacher put a big red EXCELLENT ANALOGY across the paper. I wish I still had that paper somewhere.
Don't care for either one of the Shrubs. Forty-one was a yankee masquerading as a Texas oilman, and Forty-three can't pour sand out of his boot without instructions on the heel (that his aide reads to him).
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Post by Eyphur on Dec 8, 2005 11:55:44 GMT -5
...behind the Orange curtain... That expression has always cracked me up. I'm curious...do any non-Californians know what that means? I don't. but then most of what I know about California politics I learned from watching Jay Leno. |
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